HOLLYWOOD >> Tommy Lee Jones has made one wild-haired Western out of Glendon Swarthout’s novel “The Homesman.” It’s primarily about how life on the frontier tended to drive women crazy, even the ones ...

Tommy Lee Jones’ second movie as a director is no conventional Western. Look no further than the direction traveled by the film’s characters – west to east – for confirmation. The Homesman is a story ...

“There’s been some trouble about the women hereabouts,” says John Lithgow’s plains preacher in Tommy Lee Jones’ “The Homesman.” The hereabouts is a tiny, hardscrabble settlement in the Nebraska ...

Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Rodrigo Prieto has collaborated with Martin Scorsese, Ben Affleck, Spike Lee, Cameron Crowe, Oliver Stone, Ang Lee and Alejandro González Iñárritu, among other ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

In "The Homesman," which opens in theaters on Nov 14, Hilary Swank plays the title role. Her character, a spinster named Mary Bee Cuddy, steps up to do a tough job that the menfolk in her 1850s ...

Illegal copies of “The Homesman” have been circulating across the Internet since September, but the studios behind the Western think that piracy won’t ruin the film’s chances at the box office. “I ...

Farmer Mary Bee Cuddy is tasked with escorting three mentally disturbed women from Nebraska to a sanatorium in Iowa. As the journey is perilous, she enlists the outlaw George Briggs. Together, they ...

Read up on the latest The Homesman News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. Three women who have been driven mad by pioneer life are to be transported across the country by covered wagon ...